Senior Chinese and North Korean officials met on Thursday in the wake of Kim Jong-un’s recent cross-border visit and a renewed drive by the two sides to deepen their relationship.
China’s top diplomat Wang Yi struck an upbeat tone on the relationship between the two countries when he hosted a visiting delegation led by Kim Song-nam, the international affairs chief of the Workers’ Party of Korea, in Beijing.
“China is ready to work with the DPRK [Democratic People’s Republic of Korea] to resolutely carry out the key consensus reached by the top leaders of the two parties and the two countries, and to advance bilateral ties towards deeper, greater, substantive and better development,” Wang told Kim.